Question the Candidates: III Mike Wiener

If elected, what would you do to promote open government in Larchmont?

If elected I would keep doing what we started as a board this year to do.

We created office hours on Saturday mornings for people to be able to talk to the board about issues dear to them.

We moved people who wish to address to the board from the end of the agenda up to the beginning, so that people do not have to wait until late at night to ask a question. We also asked all the Village commissions and committees to do the same.

We have implemented new policies meant to guarantee openness:

• Requiring all non budgeted expenditures over $5,000 must be approved at a public meeting after being noticed.
  
• Instituted a policy whereby no Village publications would be distributed during campaign season.

We have made numerous new appointments to committees and commissions that were independent of party affiliation. In fact it ended up that the new appointments consisted of 24 Democrats and 17 Republicans.

We work hard on getting groups of people working together to solve thorny problems. We bring these issues up in public hearings and foster debate, in an effort to achieve the best solution possible.

We welcome input at every turn.